Re: x4, x4.0.1 ?

[Matt Brubeck <mbrubeck@hmc.edu>]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, brendan strejcek wrote:

> has anyone had any experience installing x4 on a powerpc?
> know of aplace to get non-package (tar.gz) binaries?

XFree 4 runs great on my iMac (running woody). I used precompiled binaries
from Michael Da:nzer:

  http://n.ethz.ch/student/daenzerm/download/XFree86/

Just unpack the server (-srv) tarball in your root directory (after
creating a backup of your XF86Config). It will coexist just fine with the
3.3.6 packages in woody -- no need to uninstall anything or to install the
4.0 libraries.

These binaries don't have the very latest patches applied, but they will
work fine with most hardware.

> (any, just curious, how is it that powerpcs can use xfree86 at all?)

XFree86 has been cross-platform for some time now.